Egan Bernal has been selected to represent Colombia at the World Championships in Yorkshire. The Tour de France winner is likely to support sprinters Fernando Gaviria and Alvaro Hodeg. Miguel Angel Lopez, who finished fifth in the Vuelta a España, is not in the squad.

Recent Vuelta a España stage winner Sergio Iguita will lead the men's under-23 team, while Liliana Moreno, Paula Andrea Patiño, and Diana Penuela will compete in the women's road race.

Bernal, 22, will be representing his country for the first time at the road world championships in Yorkshire, but has previous experience from the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Norway in 2014, where he won a silver medal for Colombia in the junior men's cross country He was.

Bernal will return to racing this week in Italy's Giro della Toscana on Wednesday, followed by the Coppa Sabatini near Pisa on Thursday and the Marco Pantani Memorial on the weekend.

According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, after racing in Yorkshire, Bernal will head to Italy, following much the same program as in 2018, Giro dell'Emilia, GP Bruno Beghelli, Tre Valli Varesine, Milano-Torino before finishing the season in Il Lombardia.

The World Championships road race on September 29 may not have enough hills for climbers weighing 60 kg, but various reconnaissance efforts by the Belgian and Italian national teams have confirmed that the 284.5 km race will be tougher than originally thought It has been confirmed that the race is tougher than originally thought.

The 2019 UCI Road World Championships will open with the Paracycling Road Race in Harrogate on September 21 and climax with the Elite Men's Road Race on September 29.

Cycling News will have full coverage of all the action from Yorkshire.

Colombia's national team for the UCI World Championships (September 21-29)

Elite Men: Elite Men: Egan Bernal, Esteban Chavez, Fernando Gaviria, Sebastián Henao, Alvaro Hodeg, Daniel Martínez, Sebastián Morano, Nairo Quintana

: Liliana Moreno, Paula Patiño, Diana Penuela

U-23 Boys: Juan Fernando Calle, Nicolás Gómez, Sergio Igita, Julián David Morano

Junior Men: German Dario Gomez, Miguel Angel Hoyos

Junior Women: Daniela Soler, Carolina Vargas [29]